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[omegod]

I was talking to a mate about stupid balls up's etc we have made when doing jobs on cars and I wondered what others may be honest enough to cough to...I'll start the confessions:

Taking a chance with a knackered ball joint splitter when doing the steering idler.....flew off, hit me right on the fod, knocking me clean out for a minute or two! came round to the neighbours staring at me

Bleeding the brakes on an old merc and couldn't get the bleed tube into the jar so stuck some bits n bobs under the jar to raise it up, including a week old mobile phone which didn't appreciate being doused in brake fluid and never worked again!!

Misreading the EML flash code on the Mig and needlessly changing both 02 sensors when it was just the engine being off  I blame the missus for that one TBH as she was counting the flashes...

[TheBoy]

I recall JayW playing with a chain tensioner when we were swapping heads once...   ...powerful little tinkers 

[TheBoy]

Hmmm, and wheel falling off 'that bloody elite'. Oppsie daisy.

[TheBoy]

And cocking up an oil change on Ronald McBurgers car at first cambelt meets, resulting in lots of oil over Mark DTM's recently laid new driveway


(In my defence, the cheap nasty filter than McBurger brought was faulty)

[TheBoy]

And cocking up an oil change on Ronald McBurgers car at first cambelt meets, resulting in lots of oil over Mark DTM's recently laid new driveway


(In my defence, the cheap nasty filter than McBurger brought was faulty)

Hmmm, same day saw MDTM saw through JohnM's washer bottle accidentally

[Omega_Dan]

Put alloy wheels on my ex partners car using a jack and the cars wheel wrench. Took ages as the wheel nuts were almost welded on. Took about 2 hours of faffing about getting them changed to then find out the rotation of the tires were pointing in the wrong direction

[TheBoy]

No, I've said enough...   ...'what happens on tour etc'

[Danny]

only thing i did was drop a bolt into an engine bay of my mates skyline r34, took about half an hour of searching and i managed to locate it and retrieve it, and strangely enough, about an hour ago he himself has managed to drop a fuel injector O-ring into his engine bay, and its nowhere to be seen, and he cant seem to find a replacement in the right size!!

[Lazydocker]

Not myself, but know of a supposed mechanic who managed to balls up a battery change on a Fiesta

To be fair, he made a simple mistake as there was a black lead that had to be connected to the +ve terminal... Stupid design but even so

[VXL V6]

Did an oil change on the estate and thought.... 'ah while that's draining out i'll pop the plastic cover off and check the leak off pipes.....'

Needless to say one of the fixings bounced along the cam cover straight into the oil filler!

Magnets are wonderful things!

[ballcock50]

Put the leads back on one bank of the v6 the wrong way and cooked the cat, it was glowing cherry red

[omegabsw]

I have a front wishbone bolt somewhere in my front subframe, it fell into it

[Abiton]

'Helped' my old man do an oil change on the family car when I was about 13.  There was a pit in the garage so access to the sump plug was a cinch. 

Was a bit surprised how little oil came out though...

Old man was driving the whole family somewhere later in the day when a strange whining noise started emanating from the engine bay.

Unfortunately I'd drained out all the gearbox oil.   

I remember thinking that it didn't seem to need much fresh engine oil to refill... 

[Ken T]

a few ....

fitting a cambelt at about 11:30 at night when I was tired and not checking for any stray bits of plastic etc. Something somehow got in and caused the cambelt to jump 3 notches forward 

Forgetting to change a water pump at the same time as doing the 40K mile belt/pulley change 

Welding up a cavalier wheel arch, without noticing that the fuel pipe was on the other side 

Ken

[PhilRich]

I have a front wishbone bolt somewhere in my front subframe, it fell into it

You & quite a few others I reckon!